Cool Hardware
I recently purchased a set of Bose QuietComfort 2 Noise Cancelling Headphones. I had read about them but got a chance to try them on a recent flight to the US as was sitting near someone who had a set. That brief encounter was enough to convince me to get
Cool Hardware
The Register have a great review of the "Sony Vaio U". I already have the completely irrational desire; logic and commonsense on the window sill ready to fly, I'm trying to find a need for it! Link: Sony Vaio U70P Wi-Fi micro PC | The Register.
Weblogs
Credit to Amazon for setting up a one click donation to the Tsunami Disaster Relief (via the American Red Cross). In addition to a personal donation the little bit of income from this blog (mostly earned via Amazon links) has been donated. If you can help its only a click
Sports
Konica Minolta (formerly Zana) retired from the Sydney Hobart. This is the best account I've found of what happened, Around the World of Sailing - December 28, 2004 Coming the last two hundred miles by bus wasn’t the way we planned it.” These were the wry thoughts of
CAD and BIM General
Another new CAD blog: Link: The Mad Cadder. News and links on Autodesk Products such as AutoCAD, Architectural Desktop, Building Systems and Revit.
I made my regular bike ride stop at Continental Car Services today. It's always worth a look to see the exotic vehicles they have on display as I go past there when heading around the waterfront. Today was surprised to see a Sauber Formula One Car in the
I heard on the radio that the sea level at Milford Sound rose/fell 20cm this morning as the Asian tsunami passed. When you consider its something like 9400 km away it gives some idea of the power. Although far away we can help. If you are in New Zealand
CAD and BIM General
Another new CAD Blog! Link: Cold Fire CAD. "The look in your eyes as you head for the door is a cold fire"
Music
Link: Maritime Crew. The Maritime Crew is currently working hard rehearsing songs for their 4th CD. This is going to be different from their previous CDs in that all of the 17 songs to be recorded are compositions by Captain of the Crew, Rudy Sunde. Rudy started writing sea songs
MindManager
Today found another neat function in MindManager. I had done each of my AU Session notes as a separate Map linked to an Index Map. I commonly use this when a map grows too large to be easily edited or viewed. You can easily break a map into separate maps
Weblogs
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